 | John Milton - 1707 - 480 pages
...fliame. Remove their fwellihg Epithetes thick laid As varnifli on a Harlot's check, the reft, Thin fown with aught of profit or delight* Will far be found unworthy to compare With Sion's fongs, to all trite tafts excelling^ ' Where God is prais'd aright* and God-like men, The Holieft of... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...his native wood-notes wild. And ever againft eating cares, 135 Lap me in foft Lydian airs Thin fown with aught of profit or delight, Will far be found...unworthy to compare With Sion's Songs, to all true tafte excelling, Where God is prais'd aright and godlike men. That is, the odes of Pindar and Callimachus... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with ought of profit or delight, 34.5 Will far be found unworthy to -compare With Sion's songs, to all true tastes excelling, Where God is prais'd aright, and god-like men, The holiest of holies, and his saints ; Such are from God inspir'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...Remove their swelling epithets thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with ought of profit or delight, Will far be found unworthy to compare With Sion's song, to all true tastes excelling, Where God is prais'd aright, and godlike men, The holiest of holies,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...themselves past shame. Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far...songs, to all true tastes excelling, Where God is prais'd aright, and God-like men, The Holiest of Holies, and his Saints, (Such are from God inspir'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...themselves past shame. Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far...songs, to all true tastes excelling, Where God is prais'd aright, and God-like men, The Holiest of Holies, and his Saints, (Such are from God inspir'd,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...on a harlot's cheek, the test. Thin sown with aughtof profit or delight, Will far be fbund'unworthy to compare With Sion's songs, to all true tastes excelling, Where God is prais'd aright, and God-like men, The Holiest of Holies, and his saints, (Such are from God inspir'd,... | |
 | 1819 - 492 pages
...divine original, instead of continuing to be chiefly employed in those divine compositions, — — Ta all true tastes excelling, Where God is praised aright,...and godlike men, , The holiest of holies, and his sainta .' "This profanation and debasement of so divine an art," says Dr Watts in the preface to his'... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...themselves past shame. Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far...songs, to all true tastes excelling, Where God is prais'd aright, and godlike men, The Holiest of Holies, and his saints, (Such are from God inspir'd,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...themselves past shame. Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, allid face Wipe off the faint cold dews weak nature...the whilst, to chase* The fear supreme, around th prais'd aright, and God-like men, Tin- Holiest of Holies, and his saints, (Such are from God inspir'd,... | |
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Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far be found unworthy to compare With Sion's songs, to all true tastes excelling... 
